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authorSara Sharon <sara.sharon@intel.com>2018-09-05 08:06:11 +0300
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2018-09-05 10:11:50 +0200
commit9739fe29a207ffff55361a3047e7780ebddccdb2 (patch)
tree171bb83bc4c8f0290d4ac051c1bafbe61de8aec9
parentedba6bdad6fef787c0363e8a1e7d91e8d6a10129 (diff)
mac80211: add an option for drivers to check if packets can be aggregated
Some hardwares have limitations on the packets' type in AMSDU. Add an optional driver callback to determine if two skbs can be used in the same AMSDU or not. Signed-off-by: Sara Sharon <sara.sharon@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
-rw-r--r--include/net/mac80211.h7
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/driver-ops.h10
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/tx.c3
3 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index 28da9e27ea70..c4fadbafbf21 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -3594,6 +3594,10 @@ enum ieee80211_reconfig_type {
* @del_nan_func: Remove a NAN function. The driver must call
* ieee80211_nan_func_terminated() with
* NL80211_NAN_FUNC_TERM_REASON_USER_REQUEST reason code upon removal.
+ * @can_aggregate_in_amsdu: Called in order to determine if HW supports
+ * aggregating two specific frames in the same A-MSDU. The relation
+ * between the skbs should be symmetric and transitive. Note that while
+ * skb is always a real frame, head may or may not be an A-MSDU.
*/
struct ieee80211_ops {
void (*tx)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
@@ -3876,6 +3880,9 @@ struct ieee80211_ops {
void (*del_nan_func)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
u8 instance_id);
+ bool (*can_aggregate_in_amsdu)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
+ struct sk_buff *head,
+ struct sk_buff *skb);
};
/**
diff --git a/net/mac80211/driver-ops.h b/net/mac80211/driver-ops.h
index 8f6998091d26..e42c641b6190 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/driver-ops.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/driver-ops.h
@@ -1173,6 +1173,16 @@ static inline void drv_wake_tx_queue(struct ieee80211_local *local,
local->ops->wake_tx_queue(&local->hw, &txq->txq);
}
+static inline int drv_can_aggregate_in_amsdu(struct ieee80211_local *local,
+ struct sk_buff *head,
+ struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+ if (!local->ops->can_aggregate_in_amsdu)
+ return true;
+
+ return local->ops->can_aggregate_in_amsdu(&local->hw, head, skb);
+}
+
static inline int drv_start_nan(struct ieee80211_local *local,
struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
struct cfg80211_nan_conf *conf)
diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
index 42f44c33a133..c42bfa1dcd2c 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -3261,6 +3261,9 @@ static bool ieee80211_amsdu_aggregate(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
if (max_frags && nfrags > max_frags)
goto out;
+ if (!drv_can_aggregate_in_amsdu(local, head, skb))
+ goto out;
+
if (!ieee80211_amsdu_prepare_head(sdata, fast_tx, head))
goto out;